> a Flatpak-centric distribution ends up looking a lot like Windows, where there's no useful tools on the distribution media and a new install is followed by ho

> a Flatpak-centric distribution ends up looking a lot like Windows, where there's no useful tools on the distribution media and a new install is followed by hours of clicking through third-party installers (or permissions consent dialogue boxes maybe) or devolving trust to scripts that promise to do it for you. No, it looks a lot like Android or iOS, where the OS vouches for what the app can and cannot do instead of the distributor and there are no privileged scripts running at installation time. You can try it already with Fedora Silverblue. > be built with whatever standards the distribution offers (i. e. Debian being sensitive to IP concerns, Clear Linux doing its shiny performance optimizations, etc.) That's true, this is potentially something that is lost for interested people.